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Looking for some advice, my sea water washdown pump is just not cutting it. I want something with both more volume and pressure. 24 volt preferred.

Greg

My sea water washdown pump failed and I replaced it with a Shurflo Pro Blaster II (part no. 4258-163-E09), 24VDC. After 2 years it stopped working due to the membrane in the pressure sensing switch failing allowing seawater into the switch. The company was very good about sending out a free replacement. Now I need to get another pump head on the old one and I'll have a spare.

I works better than the original one. But what I'd really like is a very high flow pump that floods the chain and anchor with a deluge of water. What has worked well though, is to stand on the pulpit with a hose end sprayer and spray a concentrated stream onto the chain through the slot in the pulpit. This keeps the mess from getting on the deck. I have a remote switch to operate the windlass so I can control the chain retrieval with one hand and spray with the other.

Richard Nye

Untethered, 57-22

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Richard, I agree. With the huge fresh water capacity and water maker on board, I think fresh water use is minimal compared to storing chain with salt water on it and having the extra corrosion/rust. I don’t think our salt water wash down has ever been used.

I have one of the Ryobi 600psi cordless pressure washers. I don't know it's long term reliability with salt going through it, but I'm flushing it through with fresh water after use.

It can boost either fresh or salt water supply . It can also run off its small hose just dropped off the side or have its pickup dipped in a bucket of fresh water or pre-mixed salt away, boat wash or whatever or run off a 2 litre soda bottle directly attached (but not for long).

It's not a really strong pressure washer, more a higher powered way to rinse things that takes much less effort to set up and move around. But it seems to be working well for that purpose.